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| Introduction: |
The laboratory of fuel cells established in 1960s is one of the earliest fuel cell research organizations in China . There are now 150 faculty and staff members in the laboratory, including 1 academician, 7 professors and 70 graduate students.
The R&D activities of laboratory are mainly focused on the engineering and engineering fundamentals of advanced materials, core components, system integration, and process control in the areas of fuel cells, which can be used as portable and stationary power sources, due to their high energy density, long lifetime, environmental benign.
A fruits of achievements on AFC, MCFC, SOFC, PEMFC and DAFC have been acquired since 1960s. Two types of AFC were successfully developed early In 1970s, 100kW scale fuel cell engine which was conducted into the Fuel Cell Bus, and a number of demonstrations ranging from 100W scale DMFC stack,1000W scale medium temperature SOFC stack to 10 kW vanadium redox flow battery have been successfully developed since 2000.
More than a hundred high level specialists and experts in the fields of electrochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, and catalysis have been cultivated in order to make a valuable contribution to the economic construction and sustainable social development of the country. |
| Research Fields: |
The Research fields conducted in the laboratory of fuel cells comprise PEMFC, SOFC, DAFC, VRB, Metal/Air Battery and Super Capacitor.
PEMFC System and Engineering Group
• Fuel cell stack; Fuel cell bipolar plate
• Test and simulation of FC process
• Sub-zero PEMFC
• Contaminant influence on PEMFC
• FC dynamic behavior and process
• High Temperature PEMFC
• Regenerative FC stack and system
• High efficient Electrolyzer
• MCFC
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Group (SOFCs)
• Advanced electrode and electrolyte materials and scalable preparation processes
• Design of multilayered structure of membrane electrode assemblies and their fabrication processes
• High temperature electro-catalysis on porous electrodes
• Mechanisms of selective oxidation and reduction
• Scalable low-cost production processes for tubular cells
• Design and integration of stacks and power generation systems
• Modeling calculation and computer simulation of single cells, stacks and systems
• Diagnosis and control of system
• High temperature steam electrolysis for hydrogen production
PEMFC Key Materials & Technology Group
• Key materials and technology of PEMFC ( High activity and low Pt and non-Pt electrode catalyst; CO-tolerance electrode catalyst; Advanced proton-exchange membrane , Advanced fabrication and process technology for MEA; Advanced fabrication and process technology for GDL; Advanced materials for bi-polar plate; Self-humidifying fuel cell system)
• R&D of Key Material and Components of Redox Flow Battery, System Integration of Redox Flow Battery
• R&D of Key Material and Components of Regenerative Fuel Cell , System Integration of Regenerative Fuel Cell
• The evaluation and characterization techniques of key materials for PEMFCs
Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells Group (DAFCs)
• Direct methanol fuel cells(DMFCs)
• Direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs)
• Direct Alcohol alkaline anion membrane fuel cells (DA 3 EMFC)
• Metal(Mg, Al, Zn, etc)/ O 2 (Air, H 2 O 2 ) Battery (Me/O 2 )
• Super Capacitors Electrochemical sensors |
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